At least 58 people have been shot in Chicago during Labor Day weekend, including eight children, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Five people have been killed in shootings since Friday evening, including a 4-year-old boy who was shot in the head.
Around 9 p.m. on Friday, stray bullets sprayed through the window of a home in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Two bullets struck 4-year-old Mychal Moultry Jr. in the head. He was getting a haircut at the time, according to Rahman Muhammad, deputy chief of the Chicago Police Department’s Detective Division. The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived to take him to the Comer Children’s hospital.
“It’s hard enough with this mom and dad sitting in the hospital watching this little fella with tubes all down his body. He is trying to breathe,” community activist Andrew Holmes told WLS-TV about the boy when he was in the hospital.
The 4-year-old boy, who was visiting Chicago from Alabama, was pronounced dead on Sunday.
The Chicago Police Department is asking the public for help in the case to find those who committed the crime. Those with information can submit a tip on the Chicago Police Department website.
The Saint Sabina Catholic Church and the All Kids Matter organization are offering up to a $9,000 reward to bring the shooter or shooters to justice.
“We’re sick and tired every day,” an activist with All Kids Matter said. “We’re staking this hospital out night after night. All these children get shot throughout Chicago.”
There were eight children shot during the bloody weekend in Chicago, including six kids shot in 12 hours from Saturday night into Sunday morning. Two of the wounded minors were recovering at Comer Children’s hospital as of Sunday morning.
So far this year, more than 280 children have been shot in Chicago, 35 of whom have died from their injuries, WLS-TV reported.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown gave an explanation why children are often the victims during a press conference on Monday.
“It’s always some other offender, gang member, criminal network, some beef, and they’re targeting some adult, and young people are nearby and they are shot as innocent bystanders,” Brown said.
Supt. Brown said the department seized 64 illegally possessed guns over the weekend.
Last weekend, at least 48 people were shot in Chicago, including six who were killed.
For the month of August, there were 78 homicides in Chicago, which is 14 more than August 2020. There have been 534 homicides in the city, according to data provided by the Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago had a total of 775 murders in 2020.
There were 372 shootings in August 2021, down slightly from 372 last year, according to Fox News.
So maybe we should ask David Frum if the gun is still a lie?
Criminals don’t seem to think so. And as long as they don’t think so, I think I’m going to keep using it to protect myself from people like them.
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-persuade-americans-to-give-up-their-guns/290913
If you dont have gun handy just use a machette like your new nextdoor nieghbor would use!!! went into Malmart today… had too and it totally sucked, got a tire fixed. standing in a line for 15 to 20 minutes just to pay for my tire…. FUGG!!!! Talking about standing in the middle of Mexico City!!!
It’s just so safe in those “gun free zones”!
58 shot. 5 killed. Poor training. Imitating movie shooting techniques. Like turning the gun sideways. I’m guessing ther was not front sight focus or natural point shooting involved.
Lesson #2. Never. And I mean Never go to Chicago on a holiday weekend.
As a matter of fact, I would suggest Never going there again. Ever.
I’m sure the new, unvented Afghanis flown into every dead northern industrial town will fit right in. And violence of all types will plummet because of their Sharia Law. And their promotion of LGBTQ and Music Lover Rights.
58 people? I thought they were all just suicides, according to David Frum. Lol